549. Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political.
By Edward Wakefield, 1812. 4to.—­An immense
mass of information, chiefly relating to the agriculture,
statistics, political and religious state of Ireland,
not well arranged; and the bulk much increased by
irrelevant matter.

550. Robertson’s Tour through the Isle
of Man, 1794. 8vo.

551. Wood’s Account of the Past and Present
State of the Isle of Man, 1811. 8vo.

552. Falle’s Account of Jersey, 1734, 8vo.

553. Berry’s History of Guernsey, with
particulars of Alderney, Sark, and Jersey, 1815. 4to.

556. Briefe uber Ireland. Von Kuttner, Leip.
1785, 8vo.—­This author published Travels
in Holland and England, which, as well as the present,
indicate an attentive, careful, and well-informed observer
of manners, national character, and statistics.

PORTUGAL AND SPAIN.

Good travels in the Peninsula, especially
in the English language, are by no means numerous,
yet there are portions of it highly interesting in
a physical point of view; and the Spanish national
character, and manners, as well as the Roman and
Arabian antiquities in Spain and Portugal, furnish
ample and rich materials to the traveller.

557. Memoirs of Lord Carrington, containing a
Description of the Government and Manners of the present
Portuguese, 1782. 8vo.

558. Murphy’s Travels in Portugal, 1789-90.
4to.—­Monuments, public edifices, antiquities
principally; the physical state of the country, its
agriculture, commerce, arts, literature, &c. sensibly
but not extensively.

559. Link’s Travels in Portugal, 1797-99.
8vo.—­This work, originally published in
German, consists in that language of 2 vols. 8vo.
There was likewise published in French, Paris, 1805.
1 vol. 8vo., Voyage en Portugal, par M. le Comte de
Hoffmansegg,—­as a continuation of Link’s
Travels, the Count having travelled in this country
with Mr. Link, and continued in it after the latter
left it. Mr. Link being a distinguished natural
historian, directed his attention chiefly to geology,
mineralogy and botany; but he does not neglect other
topics, and he has added a dissertation on the literature
of Portugal, and on the Spanish and Portuguese languages.
The supplemental volume is also rich in natural history,
and extends to an account of the manufactures, political
institutions, &c. of Portugal.